Life off the grid in the SW Texas desert. An experiment in sustainable living. NUMBERS AT THE END OF EACH BLOG POST: temp at 8PM,high temp,low temp,rainfall,wind conditions(CalmBreezyWindyGusty).

Thursday, August 26, 2010

one million served...

Larry Hayden (my visitor from a couple of weeks ago) finally got into the darkroom and made some prints. http://www.larrydhayden.com/ He has just started a photo essay about the Field Lab. I'm really looking forward to his return for more images.

The How To for the camera panning mechanism met a major snag today. Sourcing my parts, I found that the gear motor gizmo I'm using was out of stock....ahhh, the dark side of surplus. Will come up with some alternates soon I hope. For over 10 years, my absolute favorite weird place to shop from is American Science and Surplus. http://www.sciplus.com/ I love the descriptions of their stuff for sale (it is worth getting on their catalog mailing list just to see it in print) and they keep coming up with items that I seem to "need".

Just got word from friend Chuck Monson that his travels are progressing. God love 'im, he is 85 years old and just started blogging....! http://prunepicker.blogspot.com/

Been keeping an eye on my site meter this week - having just crossed the 400,000 visit mark. Someone from 75.1.104.76 in Dallas performed page view 1,000,000 at 8:26:17 this morning. I think someone deserves a prize. 82,86,65,0,B

It's film and a large format camera. I purposely racked out the focus on the sides in camera to concentrate on John in his doorway. I have some straight focus images but this one was the best of the 6 or 7 images I made that day.

Thanks for the info, Larry. I've been enjoying the photos on your site. There's something really satisfying about shooting on film and processing and printing it yourself. I haven't done it in years and I miss it. One of the benefits of the digital age is that now you can get very high quality film gear for much much cheaper than you could have just a few years ago.